# taon
## Angkola Batak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

### Noun

taon
* year

## Baba Malay
### Etymology

From Malay tahun.

### Noun

taon
* year

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ta‧on
* IPA: /taˈʔon/ [taˈʔon̪]

### Noun

tàon
* year
    Synonym: anyos

#### Derived terms

* kataon
* taon-taon

## Finnish
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

taon
* first-person singular present indicative of takoa

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

taon
* genitive singular of tao

### Anagrams

* Nato, anot, anto, nato, otan, tano, tona

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French täun, tahon, toon, from Vulgar Latin *tabōnem, from Latin tabānus (“gadfly, horsefly”). Compare Norman taon, Franco-Provençal tôna, Romanian tăun.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: tan, tans, tant, temps

### Noun

taon m (plural taons)
* horsefly, gadfly

#### See also

* faon
* paon

### Further reading

* “taon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* nota, OTAN

## Kagayanen
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

### Noun

taon
* year

## Madurese
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

### Noun

taon
* year

## Mag-Anchi Ayta
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

### Noun

taon
* year

## Mandailing Batak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

### Noun

taon
* year

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French täun, tahon, toon, from Vulgar Latin *tabōnem, accusative of *tabō, from Latin tabānus (“gadfly, horsefly”).

### Noun

taon m (plural taons)
* (Jersey) horsefly

## Pangasinan
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ta‧on
* IPA: /taˈon/, [taˈʊn]

### Noun

taón
* year

## Polish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ɔn/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɔn
* Syllabification: ta‧on

### Noun

taon m inan
* (particle physics) tauon

#### Declension
### Further reading

* taon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Sambali
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

### Noun

taón
* year

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /taˈʔon/ [t̪ɐˈʔon̪]
* Rhymes: -on
* Syllabification: ta‧on

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun. Compare Ilocano tawen, Agutaynen takon, Maranao tahon / ta'on, Tausug tahun, Malay tahun, Malagasy taona, Maori tau, and Hawaiian kau (“season”). See also Proto-Austronesian *CawiN (“year”).

#### Noun

taón (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜂᜈ᜔)
* year
    Synonym: anyo
* chance happening; coincidence (especially in mataon and kataon)
    Synonym: koinsidensiya
* act of doing something to coincide with another
    Synonyms: pagtataon, tiyap
* (obsolete) act of being a go-between for admitting guests in one's house
* (obsolete) catching in the act
* (obsolete) encounter of two people at some place (especially by chance)
    Synonyms: salubong, tiyap
    Dili kita nagtaon niyong kamakailan.The two of us did not come across each other recently.
* (obsolete) finding someone being looked for by chance
    Saan mo nataunan siya? Nataunan ko sa bahay niya.Where did you happen to find him? I found him at his home.

##### Derived terms

* Bagong Taon
* Bagong Taon ng mga Tsino
* Bagong Taong Tsino
* Bisperas ng Bagong Taon
* dantaon
* guning taon
* Isang Daang Taong Digmaan
* itaon
* kataon
* libuntaon
* magkataon
* magpataon
* magtaon
* makasantaon
* makataon
* Manaon
* Manigong Bagong Taon
* mapataon
* mataon
* mataunan
* nagkataon
* noong taon
* pagkakataon
* pagkasantaon
* pagtaunan
* pagtaunin
* Pitong Taong Digmaan
* pultaon
* sa ibang pagkakataon
* sa isang pagkakataon
* santaon
* santaunan
* sasantaunin
* taon-taon
* taon-taunin
* taong bisyesto
* taong panuruan
* taong panuusan
* taong pares
* taong piskal
* Tatlumpung Taong Digmaan
* taunan
* taunin
* tumaon

##### Related terms

* panahon

### Etymology 2

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “No etymology found so far. Perhaps a euphemistic semantic shift from Etymology 1, from "chance happening" > "convulsion"?”

#### Noun

taón (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜂᜈ᜔) (pathology)
* (attack of) convulsion (especially in children and infants)
    Synonyms: taol, kombulsiyon, pangingisay, pagkisay
* infantile beriberi

##### Alternative forms

* taun

### Further reading

* “taon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 11: “Abuentiempo) Taon (pc) ir o venir o haçer qual quier coſa”
** page 42: “Alcaguetear) Taon (pc) admitiendo los en ſu caſa”
** page 59: “Año) Taon (pc) ſolar de doçe meſes”
** page 165: “Cojer) Taon (pc) a alguno en algun delicto”
** page 277: “Encontrarſe) Taon (pc) dos en un algun lugar”
** page 343: “Hallar) Taon (pc) alque buſcaba”
** page 377: “Iuntarſe) Taon (pc) aun tiempo dos [o mas]”
** page 579: “Toparſe) Taon (pc) en un miſmo pueſto”
** page 598: “Verſe) Taon (pc) dos en alguna parte yendo a eſo, o acaſo”
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*taqun”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

### Anagrams

* anot

## Toba Batak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

### Noun

taon
* year

## Totoli
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

### Noun

taon
* year

## Waray-Waray
### Noun

taon
* bet; stake; wager